I’m really concerned about my mental health however, because my excitement level over this toaster oven was proportionately high considering it’s a $75 toaster oven. For me it’s more about the fact that we made a decision to make changes and we are implementing them. I have had little to no opposition from my family either, which really helps when you are taking more extreme steps to change your life.

It may be all in my mind but the toast tasted better than it ever did in my cheap little toaster (which is going away too, yay).

Time to throw out the old toaster, and within a few months we will be completely microwave-free! We are replacing it with a commercial stove hood. My husband keeps setting off the smoke alarms when he cooks.

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I cannot stand the microwave and the radiation heat it uses on food so I bought a toaster oven over the holidays. It works GREAT but I want something that will be bigger and cook entire meals not just toast and little things. The convection is the best choice!

You know I wasn’t concerned until I saw a blog post that compared a strawberry plant grown in tap water vs a strawberry plant grown in microwaved water. The death of the microwaved water plant left me wondering WTF is that microwave doing to the water???

While I don’t think I could ever be completely microwave free I don’t use it very often anymore. I stopped buying the frozen steam veggies and started steaming fresh ones, it’s actually faster even with prep time.

I have a toaster oven but don’t like it much or use it; the thing leaches heat from around the door so much it can’t be energy efficient in any way. Which was my mine reason for purchasing it… but I just might dust that sucker off…

Nice! That article and study was very interesting. Sometimes I get overwhelmed by research, experiments, etc. It seems like everywhere we turn, something is bad for us. Almost makes you not even want to go outside to breathe air, because there could be toxins or something you shouldn’t be breathing. I was talking to my clinical instructor about thyroids the other day. She was saying that when she started ultrasound 28 years ago, she would scan normal after normal after normal. Now you rarely see a normal thyroid when they come in for a scan. Kinda scary to wonder what’s making it that way. Love the changes you are implementing. Does your toaster oven take a lot longer than a microwave to heat up food? Have you missed your microwave at all?

We currently have both a microwave and a toaster oven. We tried to go microwave-less back in 2005 and it was horrible. It was like we couldn’t figure out how to reheat anything (and we are both very comfortable in the kitchen). We persisted sans microwave and got a toaster oven thinking that would be a good substitution but that didn’t work for us. We finally broke down and got a microwave. We don’t use it very often, mostly for reheating coffee. But we use it enough that when our last one stopped working my husband stopped on the way home from work to pick up a new one.

After living without a microwave for the past 15 months, we just purchased one two weeks ago, and I must say I’m ecstatic. I live in a teeny apartment in Moscow with practically zero counter space, which is why I had put off buying one for so long. We had relied on the oven/stove, a toaster, and an electric kettle up to this point and now it’s just so lovely to be able to reheat food in less than 20 minutes. Without a microwave I also had to plan pretty far in advance with defrosting food, and it drove me absolutely nuts having to dirty up a pan every time I wanted to melt butter for a recipe (we also lack a dishwasher due to space). And lastly, the kitchen was an absolute furnace in summertime!
Long story short, I just want to suggest that everyone think carefully about how much time they’re willing to lose for every meal, every day in their microwave-less kitchen.

I love my microwave oven and I haven’t been too worried about using it.This is, until October, when my hubby’s uber-healthy 80 year-old auntie scared the life out of me about using it. I have reduced its use since but I couldn’t give it up. Yet.

I went through a phase a few years ago when I donated my micro to Goodwill and only used my toaster oven…and then I got tired of it. We have a micro now but I rarely use it. Mostly to melt butter or chocolate for baking and for making popcorn. We don’t eat a lot of leftovers, so there’s not a lot of “nuking” going on in our house. LOL

I love my microwave oven so much that I bought a second one so that I can cook in both of them at once! I also have a toaster oven that I use a lot, but I remember going to a safety presentation a few years ago where the presenter was warning everyone that toaster ovens were dangerous appliances that are responsible for a lot of kitchen fires. He even did a demonstration about them!

When I went home and told my hubby about the presentation he told me that a toaster oven caused a fire in his parent’s home a few years before I had met him. So I am more afraid of my toaster oven than I am of my microwave oven!

I want to get rid of my microwave. My biggest concern is reheating my meals in a timely manner. I have seen several taoster ovens (own an older version) and want to know which/if any have worked best for you?

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